Boomer's Tap Granted A New Liquor License

April 07, 1994|By Mark Shuman.

Des Plaines — A consensus reached during a closed meeting among patrons, neighbors and managers of a controversial Des Plaines tavern means Boomer's Tap, 1000 Prairie Ave., will continue serving liquor as it has in the city since the 1920s, Des Plaines officials said.

The bar's six major stockholders were forced to seek a new liquor license after the death of principal owner Donald Baumhart. Baumhart's family has run Boomer's Tap since 1958, an attorney for his heirs said.

Ald. Wayne Elstner organized the community meeting on March 30 after some residents lined up to alternately condemn the tavern and speak in its behalf during a boisterous City Council meeting last month.

"Citizens expressed concerns with litter, noise, parking and other problems" during the March 30 meeting, Elstner said Monday night. "Boomer's said they would do what was in their power to be good neighbors," he said.

The promise was good enough to persuade the full City Council to tentatively approve a new liquor license for the establishment during the City Council meeting Monday.